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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
gossip
1. light informal conversation for social occasions (Freq. 3) • Syn: chitchat, chit-chat, chit chat, small talk, gab, gab, tittle-tattle, chin wag, chin-wag, chin wagging, chin-wagging, causerie • Derivationally related forms: tittle-tattle (for: tittle-tattle), gossipy, gabby (for: gab), chitchat (for: chit chat), chitchat (for: chit-chat), chitchat (for: chitchat) • Hypernyms: chat, confab, confabulation, schmooze, schmoose 2. a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people (Freq. 2) - the divorce caused much gossip • Syn: comment, scuttlebutt • Hypernyms: report, account • Hyponyms: earful, rumor, rumour, hearsay, grapevine, grapevine, word of mouth, scandal, dirt, malicious gossip, talk, talk of the town 3. a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others • Syn: gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, newsmonger • Derivationally related forms: gossip (for: gossiper) • Hypernyms: communicator • Hyponyms: cat, scandalmonger, tattletale, tattler, taleteller, talebearer, telltale, blabbermouth, yenta
1. talk socially without exchanging too much information - the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze • Syn: chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, jaw, claver, visit • Derivationally related forms: visitor (for: visit), chatter (for: chatter), chatterer (for: chatter), chitchat (for: chitchat), confabulation (for: confabulate), chat (for: chat), chit chat (for: chitchat), chit-chat (for: chitchat) • Hypernyms: converse, discourse • Hyponyms: shmooze, shmoose, schmooze, schmoose, jawbone • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s 2. wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies - She won't dish the dirt • Syn: dish the dirt • Derivationally related forms: gossiper, gossiping • Hypernyms: talk, speak • Hyponyms: rumor, rumour, bruit • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s - Somebody ----s PP - Sam and Sue gossip - Sam wants to gossip with Sue
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